2025-2026 Research Fellow \& AI expert
: 2022-2025 Research Fellow & Contractor
: 2020-2022 Research & Academic Director
2019 Solution/System Architecting, Development, and Consulting
2019 Product Manager, Identity Management (IDM) Business Unit
P. Huang, F. Charton, J.M. Schmelzle, S.S. Darnell, P. Prins and E. Garrison, "Pangenome-Informed Language Models for Synthetic Genome Sequence Generation," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Wuhan, China, 2025, pp. 5025-5033, doi: 10.1109/BIBM66473.2025.11356310.
Darnell SS, Overall RW, Guarracino A et al. Creating a biomedical knowledge base by addressing GPT inaccurate responses and benchmarking context. Open Res Africa 2025, 8:12 (https://doi.org/10.12688/openresafrica.15854.1)
Aminan M, Darnell SS, Delsoz M, Nabavi A, Wright C, Jerkins B, Yousefi S. GlaucoRAG: A Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Model for Expert-Level Glaucoma Assessment. [preprint] medRxiv. 2025 Jul 7:2025.07.03.25330805. doi: 10.1101/2025.07.03.25330805. PMID: 40672509; PMCID: PMC12265780.
Darnell SS and Sevilla J (2021) 3 Stages of a Pan-African Identity Framework for Establishing Self-Sovereign Identity With Blockchain. Front. Blockchain 4:631640. doi: 10.3389/fbloc.2021.631640
K. Nandakumar, N. Ratha, S. Pankanti, and S. S. Darnell, “Secure one-time biometric tokens for non-repudiable multi-party transactions,” in 9th International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, ser. WIFS ’17, Rennes, France: IEEE, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8267654/.
N. Bore, S. Karumba, J. Mutahi, S. S. Darnell, C. Wayua, and K.Weldemariam, “Towards blockchain-enabled school information hub,” in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ser. ICTD ’17, Lahore, Pakistan: ACM, 2017, 19:1–19:4, ISBN: 978-1-4503-5277-2. DOI: 10.1145/3136560.3136584.
S. B. Daily, M. T. James, D. Cherry, et al., Chapter 9 - Affective Computing: Historical Foundations, Current Applications, and Future Trends, M. Jeon, Ed. San Diego: Academic Press, 2017, pp. 213–231, ISBN: 978-0-12-801851-4. [Online]. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128018514000094
Shelby Solomon Darnell, “Engageme: The design and implementation of a reflective tool for evaluating student engagement,” Clemson University All Dissertations, vol. 2015, 1790 May 2015.
M.T. James, S.B. Daily, T. Roy, and S.S. Darnell, “Engageme: Designing a visualization tool utilizing physiological feedback to support instruction,” Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, vol. 10, 2 2015.
Shelby Solomon Darnell, N. Mack, H. Alnizami, et al., Computing Handbook, 3rd ed. T. Gonzalez, J. Diaz-Herrera, and A. Tucker, Eds. CRC Press, 2014, ch. Human-Computer Interfaces for Speech Applications, 92:1–92:15. [Online]. Available: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781439898536/chapters/10.1201%5C%2Fb16812-10
S. S. Darnell, “Engageme: A tool to simplify the conveyance of complicated data,” in CHI ’14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, 2014. [Online]. Available: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2574765.
T. Roy, M. T. James, A. Gupta, Darnell Shelby Solomon, and S. Daily, “A participatory design process for developing a tool to visualize classroom engagement,” in Graduate Research and Discovery Symposium (GRADS), 2013.
S. Daily, D. Myers, Shelby Solomon Darnell, T. Roy, and M. James “Understanding privacy and trust issues in a classroom affective computing system deployment,” in Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 419--423.
V. Chattaraman, W. Kwon, J. Gilbert, and S. S. Darnell, “Locus of control in conversational agent design: Effects on older users interactivity and social presence,” in Twelth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2012), Santa Cruz, CA, Sep. 2012.
J. Gilbert, W. Johnson-Stokes, Shelby Solomon Darnell, J. Ekandem, H. Alnizami, and A. M. Martin, “Accessible voting: One machine, one vote for everyone,” in ACM CHI ’11 Video Presentation, Vancouver, Canada, May 2011. [Online]. Available: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1979549.
Shelby Solomon Darnell, I. Alvarez, J. J. Ekandem, D. L. Woodard, and J. E. Gilbert, “Mydash: The biometric digital dashboard,” in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications (MIAA’11) organized at the 2011 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’11), Palo Alto, CA, Feb. 2011, pp. 53–56.
S. S. Darnell, “Alleviating escape panic using evolutionary intelligence,” Auburn University Theses and Dissertations, May 2006. [Online]. Available: http://etd.auburn.edu/handle/10415/495.
Carnahan, B., Muhdi, R., Fu, S.-G., Darnell, S., Davis, J., Dozier, G., Smith, A. (2005). “GENEVAC: Evolving Exits for Evacuation Models Via Steady-State Genetic Search,” Technical Report: Auburn University CSSE05-06, May 18, 2005.
Talk/Podcast at Gochappa podcast @ the Nairobi Garage, Kilimani, Nairobi, KENYA
presentation at MempanG 2023 Conference at University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Memphis, Tennessee, USA
panel at EAPI Summit @ The Kempinski, Westlands, Nairobi, KENYA
Hackathon Talk at iHUB, Kilimani, Nairobi, KENYA
panel at Afrovalley Summit, Online
Keynote at Strathmore University, School of Business Auditorium, Madaraka Estate, Nairobi, KENYA
Invited talk at Hyperledger Meetup @ Strathmore University, Madaraka, Nairobi, KENYA
Invited lecture at Moringa School, Nairobi, KENYA
Invited lecture at Strathmore University, Madaraka, Nairobi, KENYA
Panel at 14 Riverside Drive, Riverside Nairobi, Kenya
Invited talk at Strathmore University, Madaraka, Nairobi, KENYA